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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...dates and titles of the four remaining lectures are; March 18, "Does Wisdom Signify"; March 25, "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)"; April 8, "Before the Beginning of a Poem," and April 25, "After the End of a Poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROST GIVES SECOND NORTON TALK TONIGHT | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...individual lectures, which will be given at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, are as follows: March 4, "The Old Way to be New"; March 11, "Vocal Imagination the Merger of Form and Content'; on March 18, "Does Wisdm Signify"; on March 25, "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)"; on April 8, "Before the Beginning of a Poem"; on March 15, "After the End of a Poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT FROST NAMES SIX FREE LECTURES | 2/20/1936 | See Source »

...almost forgotten when Marion Talley first appeared on the same stage, won front-page headlines as a homespun Missouri miss who at 19 was deemed worthy of opera. The Talley bubble soon burst, while Melchior went on to be known as the Great Dane, partly because of his artistic prowess, partly because of his bulk (250 lb.). In Denmark Melchior ranks as a national hero. He was brought up by Kristine Jensen, a Danish "Fanny Farmer," who cared for him after his mother's death, taught him to like to cook, paid for his lessons out of her recipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ring's Boom | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...shone in many games in place of LeVan, and the fleet Jack Irwin make them all equally potential starters. In addition, Chick Kaufman, brother of Les Kaufman, who was a main cog in last year's backfield, will probably be a replacement at halfback owing to his punting prowess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS ENTRAIN FOR TRI-MEET AT PRINCETON | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

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